Background
ALDRIN, Edwin Eugene Buzz was born on January 20, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of late Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin and late Marion M. Aldrin.
ALDRIN, Edwin Eugene Buzz was born on January 20, 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, United States. Son of late Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin and late Marion M. Aldrin.
United States Military Academy, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Instructor, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada Attended Squadron Officers’ School at Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama Later Flight Commander 36th Tactical Fighter Wing, Bitburg, Germany.
Completed astronautics studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1963.
Selected by National Aeronautics and Space Administration as astronaut 1963. Gemini Target Office, Air Force Space Systems Division, Los Angeles, California 1963.
Later assigned to Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. Pilot of backup crew for Gemini IX mission 1966.
Pilot for Gemini XII 1966.
Backup command module pilot for Apollo VIII. Lunar module pilot for Apollo XI, landed on the moon 20 July 1969. Commdt. Aerospace Research Pilot School 1971-1972.
Scientific Consultant. Beverly Hills Oil Company, Los Angeles Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Honorary.
President Research & Engineering Consultants Incorporated. since 1972. Consultant to JRW, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
United States Air Force. Royal Aeronautical Society.
Married 2nd Lois Driggs-Cannon in 1988.